skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
iirc the Astra Zeneca COVID vaccines were less effective than the others because they used an older and more established method which is also widely used in flu vaccines, and also used in the COVID vaccines made in China/Russia. I would assume the issue is in Astra Zeneca's manufacturing process. My friend who follows virology closely also avoids that brand now.
Same. I’ve been in the industry for over a decade and the only time I had to implement an algorithm/ds like b-trees or quicksort has been at the university.

Usually, what companies want is people that can handle db failovers, deploy k8s services, know how to talk to business, and write good enough code. It’s sad, but it is what it is.
Haha this is what I was thinking. Did anyone ever actually win this prize?
Its open-ended, yes, but that does not imply any duplicity. Platform providers have an incentive to minimize their liability exposure, so they're not going to volunteer to add language that applies additional qualifications and exceptions, but that does not in itself imply that any deception or abuse is going on.

It's certainly proper to call out examples of actual bad behavior by specific organizations, but not so much to treat defensive boilerplate as though it is itself bad behavior.
It looks really interesting, but as an experienced climber I'm not sure if just watching a video of my avatar climbing would really help with skill acquisition.

Also, this claims that the wall type or video quality doesn't matter, but I have a hard time understanding how the model would be able to understand that a small crimp could possibly be dual textured and therefore has only a few specific ways of approaching it.

So it seems that this is more for visualizing a climb (which is a skill most climbers should develop) and not really for dialing in some sort of microbeta for a problem.
The new one. Not the old one.
It does hide identity from all parties except the party you decide to share your identity with.

Here's the technical details on how that is achieved:
https://cipheredtrust.com/doc/#pki-id-anchoring
The latest self driving is getting really good. My main problem is being a front seat driver and taking action because I’m not sure of it’s thought process but it ends up getting things correct.

I think all these systems* could benefit from earlier braking to give the “supervisor” more piece of mind.

* including my wife in this.
Thanks for the reference. Between this, megadal's sibling-comment Wikipedia quote, and a quick search of "economic good", I believe I was mistaken.
Don't broadcast PSSST! then. They may take it the wrong way.
I'm surprised no one has replaced the entire Wikipedia page on Sampling Bias with a link to this study that only looked at the work habits of CEOs.
Is The Boring Company actually targetting anything?

Or was it just a silly idea that Musk threw some money at and they've been struggling to justify their existence ever since?
The bigger concern for me is not the blocking/censorship angle to this bill (though that is a concern), it's the business angle. Jim Balsillie and his business lobby groups are pushing really hard on this because they smell an opportunity.

In Canada we have a hopeless addiction to bad regulations that strangle all the competition out of our markets through regulatory capture and government-created monopolies. Our wireless market is one of the least competitive and most expensive in the world. Our aviation sector is completely dominated by 2 airlines which are barely competitive at all. Our news media marketplace was recently devastated by Bill C-18 (the Online News Act), another ham-fisted cash grab designed to enrich the big Canadian media companies (PostMedia, Bell GlobeMedia, Rogers Media) which backfired and destroyed a lot of Canadian independent media outlets.

I think this bill, should it pass, will lead to the creation of another regulatory-enforced monopoly. Honestly, it feels like Canada is falling into some kind of neo-feudalism with all this nonsense.
”In 2023, we prevented 2.28 million policy-violating apps from being published on Google Play”

I don’t know that I had a number in mind, but that is a large number!
This is still the case with typical single family homes or apartments that end up being sublet.

Lots of basement bedrooms that don't meet egress codes.
Where I'm from, we refer to a "bootable / native container" as an "OS image".
It would be fun to have a committee to decide--regularly, maybe even weekly--what sorts of timely questions should be asked to determine if someone's old enough to view porn. The meetings would be hilarious!

Everyone knows the classics like showing a picture of President Clinton at his desk and asking the question, "How many people are in this picture?" or show them a picture of a pager and ask, "what is this device?" but for such a committee it would actually be cutting edge research! They'd need to keep track of cultural influences that came and went on a weekly basis (or at least monthly).

"Meme Archivist" could actually be considered a respectable and lofty position in government!
>> "What we call global warming is a 0.015% change in albedo for the planet"

Did you mean 1.5%? Or where did you get that number?
Because we can build better systems based on the observations that luck is more material than skill or effort in outcomes.
You'd think creatives would have realized by now that just because anybody can easily create art, music, etc. doesn't mean that what they produce is going to be good. That doesn't mean we should raise the barrier to production. If the new iPad makes it easier for creatives to express themselves then that's a good thing, right?
I agree 100% he should be prosecuted at this point. He should have been the first time.
Can’t get to market fast enough. They are absolutely right that applying this technology to silencing noise it sorely needed.
"Independent of a publisher" is less precise than, "independent ideas and creative freedom"?

Mine is literally a binary, factual assessment, that is easily verifiable: did they use a publisher?

Yours is a standard that the public has no way to verify, and is regularly is lied about by devs and publishers. Every publisher says they let their studios have full creative control. No one says, "yeah, we interfere in design decisions all the time".

> Many indies still go through publishers because they don't have the means or knowledge to handle distribution.

No, indies didn't go through publishers, small studios do.

What you are describing is just indie studios signing on with publishers, becoming dependent* on them for some aspect of distribution. Literally ditching their indie status.

Why do you think *any* size developer that uses a publisher does so? To gain the advantages of their greater resources.

As another commenter pointed out, this term doesn't originate in video games, it comes from musicians who do not sign on with a record label.
Oh neat. Do you have an asset store link? I couldn't find it in search.
You should have children because having children is the most amazing thing a person can do.

I was just making the point that people aren't necessarily a net detriment. If people honestly believed that you'd see mass suicides as well.
It depends on your product. I’d focus on free trial vs free tier if I was you, and would lean more toward the free tier the more technical your product is.

Good luck ;-)
Not really, we are just coming out of an unusually boring period in human sexual history. Ancient civilisations seemed to manage to be plenty deviant without any porn.

The sunset of Christianity's influence in the west has just as much to do with it.
The diff is there, so the original answer exists and it seems like they prepared for this so they can easily refrain it with the original answer, or this is all idle speculation and they took it into account already. Being at a company that uses ai, data scientists know the problems and probably have discussed it at some length and covered these cases
I lived with someone who designed bridges for a living but couldn't yet call himself an engineer. The Engineer on his team was the person qualified to sign the drawings drafted by others, verifying that they met certain standards. The man I lived with was studying for the PE exam [0] pouring over large books of standards he would need to know in order to call himself an Engineer.

...

[0] https://ncees.org/exams/pe-exam/
> The EU could significantly advance its innovation capabilities by revising the charter of existing frameworks like the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), which despite a budget of over 2 billion Euros doesn’t have a functioning website at time of writing, to emulate the successful models of Arc and ARPA in the US, and ARIA in the UK.

Brit here. Almost no-one in the UK has heard of ARIA, which was an idea briefly pushed by a guy called Dominic Cummings - who was briefly a political advisor to Boris Johnson back when he was prime minister. As far as I can tell it has a yearly budget of just £200million - which doesn't buy very much advanced world-class research when compared to ARPA's $3.6bn budget or that of EIT. Its basically an under-resourced, post-brexit attempt to make the UK look like its playing with the big boys. Calling it "successful" is a stretch.

Also, EIT's website is at https://eit.europa.eu/ and, as far as I can tell, it works just fine.
I appreciate the generosity, but I feel it needs to be simplified even more so you and GP are able to grasp it as well.

Breaking and entering is a crime on its own, while most financial crimes are non-violent by nature; a whole different set of rules apply.

Burglary is also different from fraud. Read about it, I can recommend a dictionary.
> Surprisingly though, meetings aren’t what take up most of CEOs’ time. For 6.55 hours per day, the executives say they actually work alone, strategizing, planning, and reviewing reports.

Yeah....

Or, like Elmo, they spend 20 hours a day on Twitter(x).
What are you talking about? There's a whole category of porn devoted to blocks and chains!
The new Magic Keyboard has a laptop-style row of function keys (and esc!).
Nice to see Artem's name show up here. I had the pleasure of working with him about ten years ago.
"It's almost ready" is a claim about the product at the time of sale.
It need not be mediocre. I have a Jura J5 which has, as of this morning, made 18,901 espressos. A few years back, I bought the tool to open it and recalibrated the conical grinder. There are now videos that can walk you through this process.

The mediocrity disappeared. It produces a fantastic brew close to the quality of the shop where I buy the beans.

Before attempting all this, I ran an experiment. I had my shop grind the coffee one notch back from where they grind for their in-house espresso. Then I put that into the by-pass chute and brewed it. This confirmed to me that machine’s grinder was not getting fine enough.

If you grind truly as fine as you would for an espresso machine, you may get a very slightly better brew, but it will come with a 5% chance of clogging the machine and wasting the ground coffee. Best not to fly too close to the sun.

A friend who knows a few things about coffee stopped by not too long after I did this conversion and asked if I had bought new beans, because “this shit is top notch”. It was a revealing experiment about the importance of the grind.

It’s a fascinating machine to take apart. We’ve had it for 15 years and I’m optimistic it will just keep going. At this point my goal it see when the espresso counter will roll over back to zero.
This could have been avoided just by calling it "Partial Self Driving" and then everything would be above board.
I'm surprised it's taken this long, though I supposed you needed some technical knowledge to know that it was obviously a fraud a while ago. Without that you might believe it was actually possible (hence people actually buying FSD).
There are no technological solutions? Cold fusion? Electric cars with no drawbacks? Near perfect efficiency solar power? Tidal/wave power?
It is, but the users don't care.

They want a spreadsheet with updated data from Salesforce combined with info from Servicenow and some stock tickers. Local, web, punchcards, the user does not care.

Today there's a mess of Google Sheets with data pulled in from Zapier, but it's no difference to the user if it's Excel with OLE interfaces from local programs.
The whole nature versus nurture of skill comes into play.

On one hand anyone can learn anything with enough effort; and on the other any smart person can learn anything without trying much at all.
Looking at a dollar bill, I guess the serial-number space is 8 digits plus 2 letters. So naively the chance of any hit with 10^5 bills is 1 in 676000, yeah. (But maybe the serials were smaller then?)

Re the lookup problem, you could initially "hash" all the bills by say the two leading figures, in your first pass.

It's all way stupider than the game-show hack.
Hyundai considering pay-to-use in-car features, such as heated seats
Biking is definitely cumbersome and weird at the beginning, and it wouldn't be considered "running" by any stretch of the imagination.
When you are charging people extra for the features you're promising will exist in the future, it seems reasonable to call that fraud if you never deliver.
I've often pondered the optimal book organisation, sorting and inserting system. Organising by subject seems a good start, but then you have size to conser. Then you also tend to arrange by space - i.e. you might put two subjects together based more on similar size or shelf capacity then logical subject grouping.

For inserts a reverse-sorted inserting-from-the-back makes most sense to reduce moving of books, but I suspect there's probably an optimal 'free space' value to allow for easier inserting.
... which has its own reasons, namely regulations (you know, every time there was a new disaster they added another one) or maybe some corruption. You don't see bridges falling in US regularly killing tons of folks, do you.

I am not saying its ideal and there is no room for improvement, nothing in real world is, but please consider other, 'fast' scenarios for long term (100+ years) existence when not only many lives are at stake.
Sure, I agree they are not made whole, but magnitude of financial damage is absolutely a factor in sentencing.
People focussed on really doing a great job for the company will always lose out to people who are focussed on focussed on promoting themselves, either through grabbing creedit or parasititing on the processes.

It really is evolutionary unavoidable.

Otoh, it is also the reason why new entrants can displace incumbents.
this looks an exciting opportunity. Sent you an email just now. Thanks.
I had a feeling this was coming. I bought FSD in 2020. It was $10K, and they were claiming in one year you could summon the car to come to you from across town or rent it out as a self-driving taxi service. I figured it might work, and in the meantime would be a fun toy, so I bought into it as a speculation. On an individual basis this was just poor judgement on my part, but when you multiply that by how many other customers thought similarly to how I did, maybe it does become a government issue then.

Unfortunately for me, I soon discovered that I did not like the car driving me around. No matter how good it got, I would almost always have made a different decision in most traffic situations. So it was a huge loss, but for me it doesn't even have to do with the fact the technology doesn't do what their hype claimed. It has to do with the fact that letting FSD drive is more stressful than if I just drive the car myself.
In a long enough timeline, every artist will be forced to take Crypto
Absolutely!

I currently drive longer than that to get to work in Atlanta.

I would happily live further away in a less densely populated area if there were reasonable commute options.
Ah yes those cowards -- like all the multicultural immigrants that built Canada and have made it a prosperous country. Cowards to leave their counties, etc /s
I personally preferred the original politically extreme and anti-constitutional subculture better.
In the time you took writing this comment you could've gotten the repo created and the title and description filled out. Writing text in a public readme.md would serve you better than sending it to me.
Wait, is this in favor of an AI regulation bill that doesn't do anything because the it would only cover models that don't exist? Is that right? Then what is the reason for this bill's existence?
Head of NASA says he trusts SpaceX because Elon Musk put someone else in charge
part of me wonders if the reason apple went with an unusual double jump in processor generation is that they are fearing or at least trying to delay comparison with other desktop class arm processors. wonder if mac lineup will get m4 at all or start with m4 pro or something. we'll see.
> [The] question is how you . . . get Europe to regain self-confidence. I’ve never seen anybody succeeding with a lack of confidence,”

The post starts with this quote but the recommendations don't address it.

I only semi-jokingly consider there to be a physical continuum from the Bay Area to Europe. In the Bay Area, investors tend to be more afraid of missing out on upside than they are on losing their money. The further east you go (NY, Boston) the more risk averse (and thus the worse the financing terms). By the time you reach Europe, the fear of loss dwarfs the FOMO, thus the deals are few and small, with onerous terms. It's simply hard to get a business airborne in Europe.

The only significant exception I can think of to this exception is Hermann Hauser, and though he is European he actually did all his investing in the UK
Ask HN: Browse the pre-2000s web. How to?
I would like to wake up one day and exclusively browse the pre-2000s web. Is there a practical way to show only pre-2000s pages from the search engine?
What I really need is for the buzzer in the phone to buzz out Morse, so I can get information about who's sending a message without taking it out of my pocket. Maybe even for short messages just play out the whole message. First I guess I need to learn Morse though.
The definition of "local" or "national" with regards to media tends to refer to kind and scope of coverage, rather than ownership. My local paper, for instance, despite being owned by a national corporation, has local reporters and reports on local stories. Likewise with local television news.

Even if these entities were entirely locally owned and operated, the kind and scope of coverage would likely remain unchanged, so for the most part ownership doesn't seem very relevant.
> The sunset of Christianity's influence in the west has just as much to do with it.

What a common lark, and yet completely false.

Look at China - pornography is illegal. Guess what the firewall is also censoring. They are a completely atheist government by policy.

Look at India - pornography is illegal to distribute, and even though it is legal to privately consume, violent pornography is just as illegal as child pornography for private consumption. They are also not a Christian society.

Look at any Islamic country - be it Iran, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, etc. You'll be lucky to save your head if you get caught publicly using it. (Of course, privately, there's a lot of users - but that's useful for blackmail.)

Look at Japan - pornography is legal, but all genitalia must be censored or blurred.

Look at most of Africa - pornography is illegal and heavily restricted, despite their Christian status being tentative at best.

Ironically, post-Christian countries are the only countries where this stuff is legal and unregulated as it is. Believe me as well, as Islam gets stronger in this country, you might be surprised where the strongest opposition starts coming from.
Americans just use "traffic" to mean "traffic congestion." Nobody is confused by it here.
This tracks well with my approach, too. I've generalized it a bit more these days, though. If something looks very polished/glitzy, my instinct is to think that it's probably junk. I picked up this instinct through experience on the web and with modern applications, but have increasingly found it works reasonably well in the real world, too.
This is everywhere, and not a new thing.
It's Interop for compilers!
For Canadians at least, the redflagdeals forums are ground zero for this type of thing— typically you need to set up your direct deposit and pay a few bills to qualify for the bonus, but if you're disciplined about that, it seems you can collect a few payouts a year, not including any additional gains from teaser rates on savings accounts and the like.
Older non-Internet enabled cars are going to become incredibly valuable in a decade. I wouldn't be surprised to see people selling restored Maximas and Sentras to the security conscious populations.
Gosh I wish we did suburban planning in that way, instead of acres and acres of housing developments served by a single gas station and perhaps a grocery store with a starbucks attached.
"experimentally mutagenized the whole hemagglutinin"

Fuck, yeah, you did!

This would be awesome. I wonder if the shotgun approach works for COVID? I can get flu shots with no ill effects, but the COVID vax knocks me out for a day.
The models don't exist yet but they will in the near future. It's easier to regulate something that doesn't already exist (for example, the Outer Space Treaty in 1967 banned military bases on the Moon).
>A certain founder should be doing some hard time for ludicrous claims over the past 8 years.

I don't think "hard time" is appropriate for white collar crimes. Money is how you speak to these people. Martha Stewart is still worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
Nice! Cant wait to try it!
5 Trends Driving the Future of VR Gaming
A16Z GAMES interviews eight of the top VR devs, including Another Axiom (makers of Gorilla Tag), Kluge Interactive (Synth Riders), Mighty Coconut (Walkabout Mini Golf), Owlchemy Labs (Job Simulator), Sava Studios (Penguin Paradise), StressLevelZero (BONELAB), Trass Games (Yeeps: Hide and Seek) and Triangle Factory (Breachers).
It's also lost 100 times as fast.
I think they do it because you can't copyright a recipe, so if copyright is important to you then you need to add other creative aspects to the recipe that can be copyrighted.
That’s only part of the problem. They’re specifically investigating claims Elon made himself where he said the car drove itself without human input. He’s repeatedly made claims like this.
“Everything everywhere is securities fraud”

—Matt Levine

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-06-26/everyt...

The basic idea here is that you lied, the share price went up because of your lies, and that makes it security fraud. From one viewpoint it’s a useful tool to punish fraudsters and con men, and from another view it’s an overreach by the FTC. Maybe a more reasonable view is somewhere in the middle—it’s both a good tool and an overreach.
kids, be sure not to have your cigarette lit whilst separating N2 from air.
And even more, it was luck and 'fortune' that this is the case now. It's nothing of SBF's doing. They're only able to be made whole because of the market.

Crypto could easily have crashed. And then...?
Third episode of the Voxel Ray Tracing in C++ tutorial. Describes ray tracing techniques using a fast CPU template / framework. Covered so far: lights, shadows, reflection, refraction. Third article covers stochastic techniques: anti-aliasing and soft shadows, using temporal accumulation.
How are you different from Clay? ( I’m not a bdr, but on the gtm team)
> People have a right to travel the way they want, and pay tax money to do so.

...as long as they only want to travel by car.
same. at least we got in before the price jumped? We don't even have a hope as the new MCU doesn't even support getting backported to our car even if we were willing to pay for it.
Yep. And don’t we have to wait for the new expensive housing to trickle down and become cheap. If enough new housing is built, the older housing becomes cheaper almost immediately.